Organizational History:

The Tree Fruit Research Center was officially established in 1938 by an act of the State Legislature, but the initiatory step occurred in 1926 when the fruit growers of the Wenatchee district sent a committee to WSC to make a plea that the State College Agriculture Experiment Station carry on more effective experiments in the Wenatchee area. Fred Overley was the first superintendent and came to be regarded as the father of the center. Other records of the Tree Fruit Experiment Station are found in University Archives 77.

Arrangement note

This collection contains materials from 1927 to 1973. The materials are roughly divided into the following categories: research projects with which the center was involved, reports of research, publications and papers papers of various individuals within the center, correspondence and other office files pertaining the development of the center, its personnel and research, etc. The materials are arranged by these categories except the office files which are arranged alphabetically.

Collection Inventory

Office files pertaining to the development of the Center, research, and personnel (Alphabeticaly arranged)

Box

Folder

Agreements and contracts-Public Utility District 1957-1964

1

1

Agreements between Mrs. Barbara Mihelich 1948-1949

1

2

Agreements-Washington State Wheat Commission 1959-1963

1

3

American Society for Horticultural Science 1968-1971

1

4

ASHS 1972, 1973

1

5

ALCOA 1958-1963

1

6

Area Development Administration 1961-1964

1

7

Bills of sale, 195-61

1

8

Boundary of experiment station property 1946-1956

1

9

Budget 1953

1

10

Buildings 1960-1965

1

11

Buildings and land-College Farm and Branch Exp. Stations 1947-1949

1

12

Buildings and land-Robinson Land Purchase Corporation 1947-1951

1

13

Building program-Entomology Building 1947-1950

1

14

Building project letters 1965-1966

1

15

CA storage and misc. 1961

1

16

Campell vs. Chevron Chemical 1968

1

17

Capital outlay and priority 1954-1962

1

18

Census 1970

1

19

Certificates, patronage dividents 1954-1962

1

20

Charcoal 1952

1

21

Chemical Thinning Radio Service 1952

1

22

Chelan County-Overall econ. development program 1963

1

23

Chrysanthemum project records, etc. 1960-1962

1

24

Construction-Pending 1948-1950

1

25

Container research- USDA and WSC cooperative project 1954-1956

1

26

Deer damage 1956

1

27

Deer repellant project 1949-1957

1

28

Re. Degman position 1966

1

29

Dept. of Hort.-Active projects 1956

1

30

Director's memo 1965

1

31

Effect of high water tables and flooding on fruit trees 1963-1967

1

32

Equipment owned by TFES 1965-1967

1

33

Equipment of specifications 1965

1

34

Equal employment opportunity employer info. report 1969-1972

1

35

Faculty committee reports 1970

1

36

Fielmen list 1963

1

37

Finally revised exp. station programs for the Division of Hort. 1943

1

38

Finance-primarily related to history preceding establishment of Tree Fruit Research Commission 1966-1967

1

39

Foreign correspondence, foreign itinerary 1967-1968

1

40

Fruit marketing agreements 1948-1960

1

41

Grant applications 1966

1

42

Helping Korean Orphan-Choon Hee Yoon 1962-1963

1

43

History of the apple, etc. 1924-1945

1

44

Import permit 1956-1965

1

45

Indirect costs on grants 1966

1

46

Industrial Insurance claims 1955-1962

1

47

Interregional Technical Committee 1966

1

48

Landscaping 1967

1

49

Re. R. C. Lindner memorial fund 1968-1972

1

50

Memos re. labor unions 1968-1969

1

51

Memos to staff members 1970

1

52

Memos to staff members 1972

1

53

Memos re. travel authorization 1969, 1972

1

54

Memos re. time card wage scales 1970

1

55

Memo of understanding of Wash. Agricultral Exp. Station with the Bureau of Plant Industry (USDA), with Research Scholarship Foundation of the Wash. State Hort. Assoc. and with Columbia View Exp. Plots (USDA Tree Fruit Branch) 1947-1964

1

56

Minority employment 1972

1

57

Minutes of meeting of the Herbicide Council 1967

1

58

Minutes of superintendents' meetings 1966-1967

1

59

Misc. Import papers 1950-1965

1

60

National Agric. Library 1971

2

61

New Building 1965-1967

2

62

Notes of establishment-Wenatchee Esp. Station 1936-1937

2

63

Orchard growing cost

2

64

Overley, F. L.

2

65

Overley Lab dedication 1967

2

66

Overley Memorial fund correspondence 1954

2

67-68

Overtime work authorization 1967

2

69

Payment-Janie M. Critchell 1967

2

70

Personnel-Misc. 1946-1970

2

71

Personnel-Homer Coolfe, Asst. in Entomology 1951-1957

2

72

Personnel-Phyllis Ratzsch 1957-1964

2

73

Personnel-George Weeks 1948-1951

2

74

Personnel-J. West 1943-1967

2

75

Personnel-Richard E. Welton 1963

2

76

Personnel-Susan Whaley 1968

2

77

Personnel-Josef Wieneke 1969

2

78

Personnel-Richard E. Woodruff 1954-1955

2

79

Personnel-Ted Wright 1964

2

80

President E. O. Holland 1935

2

81

Pesticide regulations 1970-1972

2

82

Plant introduction 1963

2

83

Programs 1965-1967

2

84

Promotional examination announcements 1965-1967

2

85

Property inventory 1938-1961

2

86

(US) Public Health Toxicology Lab. 1951-1952

2

87

Publications on standing order and list of professional journals 1962

2

88

Quotations 1961-1963

2

89

Research policy 1967

2

90

Research grant in aid 1963-1968

2

91

Research proposal to NSF 1956-1962

2

92

Research and scholarship foundation of Wash. State Hort Assoc.--Real Estate Contract 1959-1960